Manage multiple brands

Most users only need one brand and can skip this guide — the app creates a first brand for you and the UI stays in single-brand mode. This guide is for the case where you run more than one distinct project from the same install: two solo acts on different YouTube channels, a “Dark Pop” lane and a “Lo-fi” lane with different narrators, or client work that lives alongside your own.

For the conceptual “what a brand is and how the UI changes when you add a second,” see Brands. This page is the hands-on task guide.

Tip

The multi-brand UI only turns on once you actually have two or more brands. Switchers, sidebar logo, Library brand column, Queue brand chip, and the Create per-render dropdown all stay hidden while you have a single brand.

Create a second brand

Everything lives on the Brand tab of Settings.

1. Open Settings → Brand.
2. Below the panel, click Create another brand.
3. Enter a name and hit Create. The app immediately activates the new brand and re-renders the Brand tab under its (empty) identity.
4. Fill in the Identity, Voice (if the AI Lyric Generator is on), Showcase, and Platforms sections the same way you would for a first brand. See Set up your brand for the field-by-field walkthrough.

If you want a guided, step-through version instead of filling the sections individually, click Run brand wizard at the top of the Brand tab. It walks you through identity, voice, showcase, and connections in a focused flow — handy the first time you set up a new brand.

Switch between brands

Once you have two or more brands, a brand switcher appears at the top-right of the app header. Click it to see the list and pick one. Switching changes:

• Which brand the Settings page edits.
• Which brand new renders are tagged with when you hit Render.
• Which brand’s showcase entry is visible on the remote Showcase page.
• Which brand’s voice the AI Lyric Generator writes to.

The active brand’s logo (or initials) also shows in the left sidebar, so you always know where new work is being filed.

If you just need to render a single song under a different brand without switching the whole app, use the per-render Brand dropdown on the Create page — that tags only that one render.

Rename a brand

Change Artist / Channel name in Settings → Brand → Identity. The brand’s internal ID doesn’t change, so existing renders keep their tag and continue to upload through the right platform tokens.

Export a brand to share or back up

On the Brand tab, expand Danger zone and click Export brand. You get a portable .mvg-brand zip containing:

• Identity (name, logo file, logo height)
• Voice block
• Showcase entry

OAuth tokens for YouTube / TikTok / Instagram are not included — the other install will need to reconnect each platform.

Import a brand

Below the Brand panel, click Import brand and pick a .mvg-brand file. The app creates a new brand from the preset and activates it. Reconnect any platforms you want it to upload to via Settings → Brand → Platforms.

Delete a brand

The Delete this brand button in the Danger zone is visible only when you have 2+ brands (the app refuses to leave you with zero).

1. Make sure the brand you want to delete is the active brand.
2. Expand Danger zone and click Delete this brand.
3. The confirm dialog tells you exactly how many renders and songs will be cascade-deleted along with the brand.
4. Confirm. The app activates one of your other brands first (the server refuses to delete the active brand), then permanently deletes the brand, its renders (files, thumbnails, upload records), songs, and logo.

This can’t be undone. If you only want to keep the renders, move them to another brand first — or just leave the brand in place with its platforms disconnected.

Back up the whole install

To move everything — all brands, settings, and library metadata — between machines, use Settings → App → Backup → Export Data instead of per-brand export. That writes a .mvg backup you can restore on the other machine via Import Data. Platform OAuth tokens are still machine-local and need to be reconnected after import.

Where multi-brand shows up elsewhere

See Brands for the full list, but the short version:

• Sidebar — active brand’s logo and name appear under the app logo.
• Library — brand column + brand filter appear in the toolbar.
• Queue — each row gets a brand chip so you can see a mixed queue at a glance.
• Create — a per-render Brand dropdown lets you tag a one-off render under a non-active brand, and a cross-brand warning banner appears if another brand has a render in flight.
• Platform panels — each shows a “Connecting for brand X” banner so you can’t accidentally wire an account to the wrong brand.